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FACEBOOK THREATENS LEGAL ACTION AGAINST AUSTRALIAN FAN SELLER
After recently winning a landmark $711 million in a spam lawsuit, Facebook has now thrown the might
of its lawyers at someone else who they claim is illegally making use of their site.
They have just sent a Cease & Desist notice to Brisbane-based uSocial.net, a company who sells fans and
friends on the social media site.
"We have been dealing with Facebook regarding this matter and we believe they want us to stop selling
the service, however we have no intention of doing so." Said uSocial CEO Leon Hill. "We are well within
our legal right to do so and despite the C&D, we're not taking it down."
In the legal letter, Facebook claim uSocial is breaking several laws, including illegally accessing the site.
"Where there is a bit of a grey area is that there's as yet no legal precedent for a case like this so if it
goes to court, we may be paving the way for new laws to come." Said Hill.
This is the second such notice uSocial has received from a social media site after receiving the same
notice from Digg is 2008, which the company say they ignored.
"We're not too worried by this and we'll be ramping up our Facebook services in the coming weeks,"
said Hill. "We will shortly be launching another service with groups on Facebook, though we'll have to
wait and see what the legal response is from that."
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uSocial have copies of the C&D notice to release to media upon request.
MEDIA CONTACT
Leon Hill. CEO, uSocial.net
EMAIL: leon@usocial.net
PHONE: (Australia) +61450636269.
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